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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: LOVE - BEGINNINGS Matches Found: 185 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOARD SCHOOL PASTORAL, by MAY EMMA GOLDWORTH KENDALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Alone I stay; for I am lame Last Line: Where ella passes. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Schools; Students A CONEY ISLAND OF THE MIND: 20, by LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: The pennycandystore beyond the el Subject(s): Love - Beginnings A LOVE GAME, by W. B. ANDERSON Poem Text First Line: Twas after a game of tennis Last Line: Our lips met over the net. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings A LOVE-LETTER TO FOLLY, by GEORGE S. CHAPPELL Poem Text First Line: Folly, my dear, the more I see of you Last Line: And take up folly, in a serious way. Subject(s): Desire; Love - Beginnings A LOVE-MESSAGE, by LILLIAN CORBETT BARNES Poem Text First Line: Upon the day I meet thee face to face Last Line: And pause in hushed and silent ecstasy. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Singing & Singers; Songs A LOVE-SONG, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O to think, o to think as I see her stand there Last Line: Being lord of her life and her heart and her love! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings A LOVER'S DIARY: SONNET. LOVE'S OUTSET, by HORATIO GILBERT PARKER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As one would stand who saw a sudden light Last Line: And see no farther than my lady's eyes. Alternate Author Name(s): Parker, Gilbert Subject(s): Diaries; Love - Beginnings A MEMORY OF LOVE, by MAX MORINAGA Poem Text First Line: It is only a memory Last Line: How tormenting they can be! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings A MOMENT, by MARY ELIZABETH COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The clouds had made a crimson crown Last Line: As if it had not been. Alternate Author Name(s): Anodos Subject(s): Love - Beginnings A PROPOSAL, by CHARLES V. H. ROBERTS Poem Text First Line: Beloved, I love thee! With such words / wouldst thou Last Line: In life, in love, in soul, unto eternity! Subject(s): Future Life; Love - Beginnings; Passion; Retribution; Eternity; After Life A RECOLLECTION, by ROWLAND EYLES EGERTON-WARBURTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I well remember in my youthful day Last Line: Veil'd, as we met, her blushing cheeks with gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Egerton-warburton, R. E. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Memory; Youth A SPINSTER'S STINT, by ALICE CARY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Six skeins and three, six skeins and three! Last Line: And stop the bands, and stop the bands! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Spinsters; Old Maids A STOLEN KISS, by GEORGE WITHER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Now gentle sleep hath closed up those eyes Last Line: And twenty hundred thousand more for loan. Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings AFTER 'LES FLEURS' (PAUL ELUARD), by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am 20 years old and holding on Last Line: When I close my eyes I kill you. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Nightmares AFTER SCHOOL, by BURGES JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: It's strange to think how much may come from just / a little thing Last Line: "and grandma says, ""oh, go to bed,I've dropped another stitch!" Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Children; Classmates; Courtship; Grandparents; Love - Beginnings; Past; Childhood; Schoolmates; Grandmothers; Grandfathers; Great Grandfathers; Great Grandmothers AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: SHADOWS, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The shadows dark'ning our intents Last Line: Our nightly sports and prophecies we end. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Beginnings; Night; Youth; Bedtime AIRS SUNG AT BROUGHAM CASTLE: THE DANCE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Robin is a lovely lad Last Line: March around and make a stand. Subject(s): Dancing & Dancers; Love - Beginnings; Youth AMBER! AMBER!, by EVA STROM Poem Source First Line: Your friendliness breaks against me, and that too is good Last Line: Amber, amber, I call to you, while I stiffen %more beautiful than a jewel Subject(s): Friendship; Love - Beginnings AN EARLY LOVE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Ah, sweet young blood, that makes the heart Last Line: He has the fleece of gold! Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings AN OLD SWEETHEART [OF MINE], by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: An old sweetheart of mine! -- is this her presence here with me Last Line: To greet the living presence of that old sweetheart of mine. Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F. Subject(s): Children; Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Childhood; Nightmares AN OPAL, by EDNAH PROCTOR CLARKE HAYES Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A rose of fire shut in a veil of snow Last Line: And now they pale that they have been so bold. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings ANNIE, by JAMES OPPENHEIM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the fragrance of her simple heart I still bathe my- / self Last Line: Annie, one of the sweetest. Subject(s): Girls; Love - Beginnings ANOTHER ON LOVE, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where love begins, there dead thy first desire Last Line: A sparke neglected makes a mighty fire. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings AT PEGASUS, by TERRANCE HAYES Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: They are like those crazy women Last Line: Wet & holy in its mouth Subject(s): Youth; Love - Beginnings; Desire AT THE CLOSE OF SCHOOL, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As to-day I sit and muse Last Line: Will haunt in my memory still. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Schools; Students ATHULF AND ETHILDA, by HENRY TAYLOR (1800-1886) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Appeared the princess with that merry child prince guy Last Line: Wide is your error, and you never loved. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings AULD ROBIN FORBES, by SUSANNA BLAMIRE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: And auld robin forbes hes gien tem a dance Last Line: Is the turf that has covered my willy frae me! Alternate Author Name(s): Muse Of Cumberland; Sukey, Miss Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Beginnings BECAUSE, by BETH CHENEY NICHOLS Poem Text First Line: Because last night one looked at me Last Line: For one who looked at me. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings BIRTHDAY POEM, by LINDA NEMEC FOSTER Poem Source First Line: Our fathers' slow climb Last Line: And the love, just beginning Subject(s): Birthdays; Love - Beginnings; Love Affairs; Marriage; Parents BLACK TEA, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: That wedding song keeps thrumming in my head like da vinci's Last Line: Into worlds of wild honey. The gods are in the leaves. Subject(s): Absence; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Separation; Isolation BLOW ME EYES, by WALLACE IRWIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young and full o' pride Last Line: But, blow me eyes, she did! Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Women BRASSAI'S LOVERS, by A. V. CHRISTIE Poem Source First Line: Stall in moments of welcome and/or farewell Last Line: Near the perfect curve of the swan's long, gilded neck Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Relationships BROWN PENNY, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Poem Text Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: I whispered, 'I am too young' Last Line: One cannot begin it too soon. Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B. Variant Title(s): The Young Man's Song Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Youth BY DEGREES, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I make a very modest plea Last Line: Perhaps you'll say the word. Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings CAPRICE, by WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She hung the cage at the window Last Line: Of blinding love upon his lips. Alternate Author Name(s): Howells, W. D. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings CATCH AND RELEASE, by MARK RUBIN Poem Source First Line: From behind you in the canoe, I watched Last Line: Waiting patiently for romance and preening Subject(s): Fishing And Fishermen; Love - Beginnings CHLAMYDIA, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sex was as beautiful as flowers. Last Line: And meant only for one Subject(s): Chlamydia; Love - Beginnings COLLOQUY AT PENIEL, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Countenance like lightning, why do you stand Last Line: It will be your body that will fall Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Angels; Heaven; Love - Beginnings COMIN' THRO' THE RYE, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Gin a body meet a body Last Line: I dinna care to tell. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings CONDITIONAL PERFECT TENSE, by JOAN WIESE JOHANNES Poem Source First Line: She could have called him from the motel Last Line: At the time he predetermined yesterday Subject(s): Love - Beginnings CONFESSION, by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How shall a maid make answer to a man Last Line: Guard well the fort, lest new dreams enter in. Alternate Author Name(s): Wilson, Robert, Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings COURTESY, by CHARLES WILLIAMS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the beginning of time Last Line: On meeting a lady, instinctively raise one's hat. Subject(s): Likes And Dislikes; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Youth; Male-female Relations COZY APOLOGIA; FOR FRED, by RITA DOVE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I could pick anything and think of you- Last Line: I fill this stolen time with you Subject(s): Boys; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Youth CUPID AND CAMPASPE, FR. ALEXANDER AND CAMPASPE, by JOHN LYLY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Cupid and my campaspe played Last Line: What shall, alas! Become of me? Alternate Author Name(s): Lily, John Variant Title(s): Cards And Kisses;campaspe;apelles' Song Subject(s): Love - Beginnings DA CAPO, by HENRY CUYLER BUNNER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Short and sweet, and we've come to the end of it Last Line: Begin it again. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Loss Of; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations DAYS OF '74, by MARK JARMAN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What was the future then but affirmation Last Line: To that first word repeated all night long Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Erotic; Marriage; Weddings; Husbands; Wives DINNA ASK ME, by JOHN DUNLOP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O, dinna ask me gin I lo'e ye [or, thee] Last Line: Gin he'd prove fause to me! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings DORIS, by CLARENCE S. HARPER Poem Text First Line: Down the lane and across the fields Last Line: For doris was only talking. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings EDGED TOOLS, by EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Well, helen, quite two years have flown Last Line: And why his spirit will not rest. Subject(s): Longing; Love; Love - Beginnings; Love - Loss Of ELSINORE, by BENJAMIN APTHORP GOULD JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I have loved thee, elsinore Last Line: Smile upon me, elsinore. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings EMMY AT THE ELDORADO, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: To meet, of all unlikely things Last Line: Leaves you, for all but one, less fair. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings EROS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Bright thro' the valley gallops the brooklet Last Line: This the first first-love, the first love of all! Subject(s): Cupid; Love - Beginnings; Eros FALLING IN LOVE IN SPAIN OR MEXICO, by RON PADGETT Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am happy to meet you. My name is jose gomez carillo. What is Last Line: The end Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings FINALE MARINA! IF EVER YOU'D SEEN HER!, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And wonderful fine she behaved! Subject(s): Beauty; Hearts; Love - Beginnings FIRST, by MARYA MANNES Poem Source Poet Analysis First Line: How can a long-used body reconstrue Last Line: Over and over whispering other's name %until, one day, he hurt her as he came Subject(s): Love - Beginnings FIRST ADVENT OF LOVE, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O fair is love's first hope to gentle mind Last Line: Meets it with brow uplift, and stays his reaping. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings FIRST GLIMPSE, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: When love glimpsed me for the first time Last Line: Though I was made of mud Subject(s): God; Humility; Love - Beginnings FIRST LOVE, by CHARLES STUART CALVERLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O my earliest love, who, ere I number'd Last Line: To another as I did to you! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Women FIRST LOVE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I ne'er was struck befoe that hour / with love so sudden and so sweet Last Line: And can return no more. Subject(s): Desire; Love; Love - Beginnings FIRST LOVE, by PAT MORA Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Her brown eyes circle Subject(s): Love - Beginnings FIRST LOVE, by LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My neighbor yonder, at her door Last Line: The lad she did not wed. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings FIRST LOVE, by TOM SLEIGH Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A slightering rustle through ivy and leaves Subject(s): Love - Beginnings FIRST NIGHT, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: We spent together was like Last Line: Was becoming a real thing Subject(s): Love - Beginnings FIRST TIME, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was the first time we had made love Last Line: Myself. It would be better so Subject(s): Love; Love - Beginnings FIRST TIME, by MARGE PIERCY Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love felled me Subject(s): Love - Beginnings FISH IN CHAINS, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Along the hudson across manhattan to the triborough Last Line: It nearly rained that's what people had to say Subject(s): Cities; Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Love - Unrequited; New York City; Urban Life; Manhattan; New York, New York; The Big Apple FIVE STILLS, by ELISABETH RYNELL Poem Source First Line: Our first night together Last Line: We uttered together, almost frightened by our gravity Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Peace; Silence; Togetherness FORTUNATE LOVE: 1. FIRST SIGHT, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When first we met the nether world was white Last Line: When first we met. Variant Title(s): First Sight Subject(s): Love - Beginnings FREEDOM AND LOVE, by THOMAS CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How delicious is the winning Last Line: In the knot there's no untying. Variant Title(s): The First Kiss Subject(s): Love - Beginnings GESTURE, by WINIFRED WELLES Poem Text First Line: My arms were always quiet Last Line: Like arms upon a cross. Alternate Author Name(s): Shearer, Harold H., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Worship GRAY EYES, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It was april when you came Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Eyes; Love - Beginnings GREEN CRAWLER FINDS ITS WAY, by STEPHEN FRECH Poem Source First Line: Mint sends our shoots, blind worms that crawl Last Line: Grabs hold of the rosemary %and swallows the thyme Subject(s): Courtship; Gardens And Gardening; Love - Beginnings GREEN STREET GRILL: FIRST DATE, by SUSAN RICH Poem Source First Line: During the silence Last Line: Waiting to comply with the weather Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Travel HER LETTER, by FRANCIS BRET HARTE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I'm sitting alone by the fire Last Line: And you've struck it, -- on poverty flat. Alternate Author Name(s): Harte, Bret Subject(s): Letters; Love - Beginnings HER NEIGBOURS, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: They lingered at her father's door Last Line: With one word answered - 'you' Subject(s): Lent;love - Beginnings;youth HIGH SCHOOL BOYFRIEND, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You were willing to like me, and I did something, Last Line: Is so wrong Subject(s): Youth; Love - Beginnings HOW WE DISCOVER, by DAVID KELLER Poem Source First Line: When I was three, or five, or eight Last Line: It has taken this long to remember Subject(s): Love - Beginnings IANTHE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "ianthe, the lovely, the joy of her swain" Last Line: And they still might be true Subject(s): Love - Beginnings;passion IDEA: 56, by MICHAEL DRAYTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When like an eaglet I first found my love Last Line: It after thee is, like an eaglet, flown. Subject(s): Birds; Eagles; Love - Beginnings; Love - Nature Of IN A GARDEN, by DAVID WAGONER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The day you said you loved me, we found ourselves Last Line: (looking the other way.) Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening; Love - Beginnings; Marvell, Andrew (1621-1678); Poetry & Poets INCONSTANCY, by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR. Poem Text First Line: Blue eyes, gray eyes Last Line: Or is it love I love? Subject(s): Love - Beginnings JENNY, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Now I grow old, and flowers are weeds Last Line: The world seems one big grave to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Loss Of; Memory JOCKEY AND JINNEY OR FIRST LOVE; A TALE, by JOHN CLARE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Wereover many a stile neath willows grey Last Line: Here they are blest and here the tale shall close Subject(s): Love - Beginnings KATE TEMPLE'S SONG, by EDWARD JAMES MORTIMER COLLINS Poem Text First Line: Only a touch, and nothing more Last Line: Only a word, sweet! Only a touch! Alternate Author Name(s): Collins, Mortimer Subject(s): Love - Beginnings KISSES, by WILLIAM STRODE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My love and I for kisses played Last Line: "take your own kisses; give me mine again." Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings KISSING'S NO SIN, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Some say that kissing's a sin Last Line: "if it wasn't plenty, / puir folk wadna get it" Subject(s): Kisses;love - Beginnings KITTY, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little lake, whose waters lay Last Line: These verses, kitty? Subject(s): Love - Beginnings KITTY NEIL, by JOHN FRANCIS WALLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ah, sweet kitty neil! Rise up from your wheel Last Line: Dance light, for my heart it lies under your feet, love! Variant Title(s): An Irish Melody Subject(s): Love - Beginnings KITTY OF COLERAINE, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: As beautiful kitty one morning was tripping Subject(s): Coleraine, Ireland; Love - Beginnings KITTY OF COLERAINE, by CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: As beautiful kitty one morning was tripping Last Line: For very soon after poor kitty's disaster %the devil a pitcher was whole in coleraine Subject(s): Coleraine, Ireland; Love - Beginnings LET US LIE CLOSE, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text Poet Analysis First Line: Let us lie close, as lovers should Last Line: And with one kiss prepare for sleep. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Rest; Sleep LONELIEST ROAD IN AMERICA, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: We could've gone the other way, freeway Last Line: Is lovely, yes lovely, like me Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Solitude; Travel LOVE, by GRACE IMOGEN DUFFY Poem Text First Line: Like silver shafts imprisoned in a fine Last Line: Listen! Listen! The whole world sings! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings LOVE IN EXILE II: 2, by MATHILDE BLIND Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: A twilight glow diffused on high Alternate Author Name(s): Lake, Claude Subject(s): Love - Beginnings LOVE IN THE VALLEY (VERSION A), by GEORGE MEREDITH Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward Last Line: Bring her to my arms on the first may night. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Love - Marital; Nature; Wedded Love; Marriage - Love LOVE'S AWAKENING, by WARREN HOLDEN Poem Text First Line: O sweet surprise! Thou image of my dream Last Line: Thou'rt still the key that first unlocked my heart. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings LOVE'S DAWNING, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her girlish face leaped into loveliness Last Line: "turned and superbly shouted, ""hello, lil!" Subject(s): Love - Beginnings LOVE'S DIET, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tell me, fair maid, tell me truly Last Line: That the small elf's liquored. Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Beginnings LOVE'S FIRST APPROACH, by JOAN PHILIPS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Strephon I saw, and started at the sight Last Line: Tis better still than a wild liberty. Alternate Author Name(s): Ephelia Subject(s): Love - Beginnings LOVE'S PHILOSOPHY, by PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Poem Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: The fountains mingle with the river Last Line: If thou kiss not me? Subject(s): Love; Love - Beginnings LOVERS' PLAY, by MIKLOS RADNOTI Poem Source First Line: This morning my lady caught a mole Last Line: Astonished at the song Subject(s): Brides; Love - Beginnings; Marriage; Wedding Song LULLABY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not sing you to sleep Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings LULLABY, by REETIKA VAZIRANI Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I would not sing you to sleep Last Line: And hope the terror in my heart stirs you Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings MAGIC FLUTE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: That summer in munich we were papageno and papagena Last Line: In love. Beautiful days and now happy memories Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791); Pentastichs MEMORIES, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A beautiful and happy girl Last Line: Our early dreams not wholly vain! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Memory MENNEN SKIN BRACER, by LAURA TOHE Poem Source First Line: Having a boyfriend meant holding hands at the movies Last Line: Of my first dance at the indian school gym Subject(s): Adolescence; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Native Americans - Women MY LADY OF THE ROSES, by SILAS WEIR MITCHELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: At venice, while the twilight hour Last Line: Venice, june 1891 Subject(s): Flowers; Love; Love - Beginnings; Time MY LADY'S PLEASURE, by ROBERT GRAHAM Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If doughty deeds my lady please Last Line: Though ne'er another trow me. Alternate Author Name(s): Cunninghame-graham Of Gartmore Variant Title(s): Cavalier's Song;to His Lady;oh, Tell Me How To Woo Thee Subject(s): Love - Beginnings MY LODGING IT IS ON THE COLD GROUND, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: The cause of my misery Subject(s): Love - Beginnings NEVER WENT TO BIRDLAND, by GERALD STERN Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Never went to birdland, so what, went to the y, Subject(s): Ancestors & Ancestry; Jews; Love - Beginnings; Heritage; Heredity; Judaism NEW BODY, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's a sort of eternity Last Line: Love scratched out of sky, o my visitor. Subject(s): Future Life; Hope; Love - Beginnings; Retribution; Eternity; After Life; Optimism O'KEEFFEAN, by JANE MILLER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Through the window the pinon Last Line: Your face. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings OF LOVE; A SONNET, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How love came in, I do not know Last Line: The out-let then is from the heart. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings ON BEING ASKED WHAT WAS THE 'ORIGIN OF LOVE', by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The 'origin of love!' - ah! Why Last Line: But live -- until I cease to be. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Love - Beginnings ON REMEMBERING HIS FIRST GIRLFRIEND, by PAUL FLEMING Poem Source First Line: Though I must let her go, I am hers yet Last Line: The thought of you will always lift my heart Subject(s): Love - Beginnings ONCE, by JEAN VALENTINE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Recitation by Author Poet's Biography First Line: Once there was a woodcutter Subject(s): Love - Loss Of; Love - Beginnings ONE NIGHT, by ARTHUR PETERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O many a fairer, brighter face Last Line: The mystic chords of love! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings ONE SPEAKS, by KATHARINE A. JENKINS Poem Text First Line: To you - someone to pass you a book Last Line: You would pass me by unknowing. Subject(s): Conversation; Love - Beginnings; Mouths; Speech; Talk; Oratory; Orators OUR LADY OF CHANGE, by BERTON BRALEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes she's a merry young hoyden Last Line: And so I shall do till I die! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings PERIMEDES, THE BLACKSMITH: PHILLIS AND CORIDON, by ROBERT GREENE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Phillis kept sheep along the western plains Last Line: Phillis was lov'd, and she lik'd coridon. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Shepherds & Shepherdesses; Male-female Relations PETER, by ANN HAMILTON (1902-) Poem Text First Line: Peter is a plain lad Last Line: And his red hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Hamilton, Anna E.; Hamilton, A. E.; Hamilton, Anne E. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings PLACES I WOULD LIVE, by JOHN REINHARD Poem Source First Line: Not paris. Not london Last Line: Like rebecca. Yes. Like that Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Travel PRISONER OF CHILDHOOD, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It is night and your plane is now Last Line: Loving begins loving which will de- %light and frighten him all his life Subject(s): Love - Beginnings PROPHETIC SPRING, by ARTHUR WILLIAM EDGAR O'SHAUGHNESSY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Today 'tis spring; the hawthorn tree Last Line: Each other, she and I. Alternate Author Name(s): O'shaughnessy, Arthur W. E. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Spring; Male-female Relations QUARRELS, by NAOMI REYNOLDS Poem Text First Line: Didn't we meet in a garden, love Last Line: That is john's or pete's or abie's. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings REPARTEE, by SAMUEL ALBERT YORK Poem Text First Line: They had whirled around in the steps of the waltz Last Line: "this attachment is mutual, you know." Subject(s): Flirtation; Love - Beginnings ROMANCE OF BRUNETTES AND BLONDES, by JACQUES BARON Poem Text First Line: Opera bound to the clouds Last Line: She has been dead since Subject(s): Love - Beginnings SEEDS OF LOVE, by MRS. FLEETWOOD HABERHAM Poem Source First Line: I sowed the seeds of love, it was all in the spring Subject(s): Love - Beginnings SMILE AND NEVER HEED ME, by CHARLES SWAIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Though, when other maids stand by Last Line: Then -- thou then -- mayst heed me! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings SOMETIMES THE FIRST BOYS DON'T COUNT, by DENISE DUHAMEL Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Walking home through the woods from a movie at the plaza Last Line: I swallowed like a brave girl, taking her medicine Subject(s): Love - Beginnings SONG, by WILLIAM STANLEY MERWIN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: How have I dreamed you, lady Last Line: O lady, lady, does your chimney burn? Alternate Author Name(s): Merwin, W. S. Subject(s): Dreams; Love - Beginnings; Praise SONG OF LOVE'S COMING, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Love comes unawares Last Line: Mine until my dying! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings SONG [WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1732], by GEORGE LYTTELTON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When delia on the plain appears Last Line: Tell me, my heart, if this be love. Alternate Author Name(s): Lyttleton Of Frankley, 1st Baron; George, First Lord Of Lyttleton Variant Title(s): Tell Me, My Heart, If This Be Love Subject(s): Innocence; Love; Love - Beginnings SPANISH FOLK SONGS: 75, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Ruddy little apple Last Line: Fall in love with me Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings SWEET MAID OF MY DREAMS, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Sweet maid of my dreams while my love seeks for thee Last Line: From the fathomless depths I answer to thee. Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Beginnings SYMPTOM RECITAL, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I do not like my state of mind; Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Conduct Of Life; Likes & Dislikes; Love - Beginnings THE ANGEL IN THE HOUSE: BOOK 2. CANTO 8. PRELUDE: THE KISS, by COVENTRY KERSEY DIGHTON PATMORE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I saw you take his kiss! 'tis true Last Line: He thought I thought he thought I slept.' Variant Title(s): Sly Thoughts Subject(s): Kisses; Love; Love - Beginnings THE BUDS, by JAMES STEPHENS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now I can see Last Line: To whisper to. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Spring THE COMING OF LOVE, by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: You ask me how this wonder came about Last Line: His grace should find. And so I serve him still. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE CRUSHED AND BROKEN FLOWER, by OLIVER MURRAY EDWARDS Poem Text First Line: Within the forest depths unknown Last Line: Because he loved us so. Subject(s): Flowers; Love - Beginnings; Pain; Suffering; Misery THE DAWN OF LOVE, by FREDERIC FAIRCHILD SHERMAN Poem Text First Line: Sweeter than any earthly dawn is this Last Line: There is a murmur of eternity. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE EGG-ROLLING, by ARTHUR GUITERMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Twas jack the shrewd an' mike the tall Last Line: Was all of solid china! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE FIRST KISS, by NORMAN ROWLAND GALE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: On helen's heart the day were night! Last Line: Young kiss of long ago! Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings THE FIRST KISS OF LOVE, by GEORGE GORDON BYRON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Away with your fictions of flimsy romance Last Line: Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love. Alternate Author Name(s): Byron, Lord; Byron, 6th Baron Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings THE FIRST MEETING, by EDWARD HERBERT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: As sometimes with a sable cloud Last Line: Comes from the motions of your mind Alternate Author Name(s): Cherbury, 1st Baron Herbert Of; Herbert Of Cherbury, Edward Herbert, 1st Baron; Herbert Of Cherbury, Lord Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE HOUSE OF LIFE: 2. BRIDAL BIRTH, by DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: As when desire, long darkling, dawns, and Last Line: Leaves us for light the halo of his hair. Alternate Author Name(s): Rossetti, Gabriel Charles Dante Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE IVORY GATE; LOVE-IN-IDLENESS, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Shall I be your first love, lady, shall I be your first Last Line: And then die, weeping you.' Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE JANITOR'S BOY, by NATHALIA CRANE Poem Text First Line: Oh I'm in love with the janitor's boy Last Line: "with the janitor's red-haired boy." Subject(s): Escapes; Janitors; Love - Beginnings; Fugitives THE KISS, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Among thy fancies tell me this Last Line: Love honey yields, but never stings. Subject(s): Kisses; Love - Beginnings THE LAST QUESTION, by DOROTHY PARKER Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: New love, new love, where are you to lead me? Alternate Author Name(s): Rothschild, Dorothy Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE LITTLE MILLINER, by ROBERT WILLIAMS BUCHANAN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My girl, hath violet eyes and yellow hair Last Line: To ashes, like the chestnuts, close together! Alternate Author Name(s): Maitland, Thomas Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE LOVE-KNOT, by NORA PERRY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Tying her bonnet under her chin Last Line: As she tied her bonnet under her chin. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Women THE LOVER'S LEAP; A TALE, by ANDREW MACDONALD Poem Text First Line: Sir bumper was a baron bold / as e'er romantic writ enrolled Last Line: Was given in a matrimonial way. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings THE NEW LOVE, by EDUARD FRIEDRICH MORIKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Is man unto another wholly given Last Line: But walk with god on earth, foretasting heaven. Alternate Author Name(s): Moricke, Eduard Friedrich Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE ORIGIN OF LOVE; AN ALLEGORY, by PLATO Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When beauty was born, a magnificent fete Last Line: Suspicious, mendacious, and fearful of blame. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE PLAIDIE, by CHARLES SIBLEY Poem Text First Line: Upon ane stormy sunday Last Line: "wha kens but it may rain?" Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE PLUMS, by ALPHONSE DAUDET Poem Text First Line: Well, since you ask me, this is how Last Line: We fell in love -- it was the plums! Subject(s): Birds; Love - Beginnings; Orchards; Plums; Plum Trees THE POOL, by ALEXANDER ANDERSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The wind through the summer woods blows cool Alternate Author Name(s): Surfaceman Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Childhood Memories THE QUEEN OF TOMPKINS SQUARE, by EDWARD NOYES POMEROY Poem Text First Line: I met her at the mission school Last Line: The queen of tompkins square. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Single People; Bachelors; Unmarried People THE RESURRECTION, by DAVID BOTTOMS Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: I'd dared her to go in, and we came on that dare Last Line: That first delicate laying on of hands? Subject(s): Cemeteries; Death; Funerals; Graves; Jesus Christ; Love - Beginnings; Resurrection, The; Graveyards; Dead, The; Burials; Tombs; Tombstones THE RUNAWAY, by THOMAS LOVELL BEDDOES Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Hast no one seen my heart of you? Last Line: So christians fair, farewell. Variant Title(s): "has No One Seen My Heart Of You""; Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE SEA-LANDS, by ORRICK JOHNS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Would I were on the sea-lands Last Line: And winds upon the door. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE SEEDS OF LOVE, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: I sowed the seeds of love Last Line: In time it will rise again Subject(s): Gardens & Gardening;love - Beginnings THE TELLTALE, by ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Once, on a golden afternoon Last Line: "warbled the telltale -- ""do it again!" Alternate Author Name(s): Percy, Florence; Chase, Elizabeth Anne Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE TOLLMAN'S DAUGHTER, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: She stood waist-deep among the briers Last Line: And I--I fell in love; ah me! Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE WANDERER: 2. IN FRANCE: THE CHESSBOARD, by EDWARD ROBERT BULWER-LYTTON Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My little love, do you remember Last Line: Play chess, as then we played together. Alternate Author Name(s): Meredith, Owen; Lytton, 1st Earl Of; Lytton, Robert Subject(s): Chess; France; Love - Beginnings; Travel; Journeys; Trips THE WHISTLE, by ROBERT STORY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You have heard,' said a youth to his sweetheart, who stood Last Line: "to sit there and whistle for -- what you might take!" Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THE YOUNG INTELLECTUAL TO HIS LOVE, by STODDARD KING Poem Text First Line: Oh, come with me, and we will try Last Line: With thoughts, impeccably expressed. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings THERE WAS AN OLD PERSON OF HYDE, by EDWARD LEAR Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography Last Line: And they said, 'would we'd never left hyde!' Subject(s): Brides; Love - Beginnings THIRD BOOK OF AIRS: SONG 26. FIRST LOVE, by THOMAS CAMPION Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Silly boy, 'tis full moon yet, thy night as day shines clearly Last Line: Lives of all that ever breathed most worthy the envying. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Relationships THOUGHTS ON THE COMMANDMENTS, by GEORGE AUGUSTUS BAKER JR. Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Love your neighbor as yourself Last Line: Also loves her neighbor. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Ten Commandments TO ONE WHO SAID SHE SHOULD LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT, by WALTER SAVAGE LANDOR Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When sea-born venus guided o'er Last Line: Whose glory rests in her alone. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings TO SARAH TAYLOR, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet are the thoughts that stir the virgin's breast Last Line: Which conquers death, and triumphs over time. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Love - Beginnings TO YOU WHOM I SAW ONCE, by LEXIE DEAN ROBERTSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I remember / that your eyes were tranquil Last Line: And secret dreams. Subject(s): Dreams; Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Memory; Passion; Nightmares TRUE LOVE, by ROBERT PENN WARREN Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In silence the heart raves. It utters words Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Youth TWENTY POEMS OF ANNA AKHMATOVA: 8, by ANNA ADREYEVNA GORENKO Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Yes I loved them, those gatherings late at night Last Line: And the first helpless and frightening glance of my love Alternate Author Name(s): Akhmatova, Anna Subject(s): Love - Beginnings TWIST AND TURN, by BRENDAN KENNELLY Poem Source First Line: He backs her up against the door Last Line: Midnight streets sing love is born Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Sex VERY LATE, BUT NOT TOO LATE, by JAMES TATE Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I was the last one to leave the party. I Subject(s): Man-woman Relationships; Love - Beginnings; Male-female Relations WHEN LOVE WAS BORN, by SARA TEASDALE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: When love was born I think he lay Last Line: Erelong, erelong. Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, by JOHN LAURENCE RENTOUL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When I was young and thou wast young Last Line: A word light as a feather. Alternate Author Name(s): Gage, Gervais Subject(s): Children; Love - Beginnings; Youth; Childhood WHISTLE, AND I'LL COME TO YOU, by ROBERT BURNS Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O whistle, and I'll come to you, my lad Last Line: O whistle, and I'll come to ye, my lad. Subject(s): Love - Beginnings WHO COMES SO GRACEFULLY?, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography Last Line: And the nextgone! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Love - Beginnings; Youth WHY I MIGHT GO TO THE NEXT FOOTBALL GAME, by DENIS JOHNSON Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes you know Last Line: Was wide open! The end was wide open . . . Subject(s): Youth; Love - Beginnings YOU NOW HOLDING THIS BOOK IN HAND, by ALICE NOTLEY Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: The man kissed her hand. Little earrings. They're about Last Line: Confederate flag. She kisses the man on his cheek. Subject(s): Hearts; Love - Beginnings; Man-woman Relationships; Male-female Relations YOUNG LOVE, by WILLIAM MOTHERWELL Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: It seems a dream the infant love Last Line: Thorrow my being glide! Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, Isaac Subject(s): Love - Beginnings |
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